WORD UP TO THE BARISTA!

barista  (bəˈrɪstə) - n     A person who makes and serves coffee in a coffee bar

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Barista


I didn't know either until I Alana told me she was one...then I went home and looked it up. 

If you want to know the ins and outs of a barista, including (and most especially) how to order at Starbucks (which is apparently a lot harder than I imagined). 

Here blog covers all aspects of coffee, coffee serving, coffee drinking, and coffee customers.  If you like coffee, tea, milk, sitting, drinking, eating, customer service, floors, ceilings, water, lights, windows, ice, buying and selling, spoons, or hundreds of other things Starbucks has them all. 

Swing by Alan's blog and say hi. http://baristabulletin.wordpress.com/about/

While you're at it, swing by her Starbucks and order Iced Decaf Quad Venti Sugar-free Vanilla Soy Upsidedown Light-ice Caramel Macchiato.